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In Australia, the Methodist Church merged with the Presbyterian Church and the Congregationalist Church in 1977, becoming the Uniting Church. However, independent Methodist Churches also exist, most founded since the merger by Tongan immigrants.
In Canada, the Methodist Church merged with the Presbyterian Church and a number of other groups to form the United Church of Canada.
There are small Methodist Churches in many European countries, the strongest being in Germany. These mostly derive from links with the American rather than the British church.
The strongest Methodist church in the world is probably now in South Korea. There are many Korean-language Methodist churches in North America, catering to Korean-speaking immigrants.
A high proportion of the Polynesian population of Fiji are Methodists. Fiji has the highest percentage of Methodists in the world.
Missionaries from Britain, America, and Australia founded Methodist churches in many Commonwealth countries. These are now independent and many of them are stronger than the former "mother" churches
Almost all Methodist churches are members of a consultative body called the World Methodist Council , which has its headquarters at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, USA.

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Methodist Episcopal ChurchThe Methodist Episcopal Church officially begun at the Baltimore Christmas Conference in 1784. Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke were the first bishops. Circuit riders, many of which were laymen, traveled by horseback to preach the gospel and establish churc	Methodist Episcopal Church, SouthThe Methodist Episcopal Church, South was the so-called "Southern Methodist Church" resulting from the split in the Methodist Episcopal Church which had been brewing over several years until it came out into the open at a conference held in Louisville, Ke	Methodist Protestant ChurchThe Methodist Protestant Church was officially formed in 1828 as a church that was Wesleyan in doctrine, but rejected the episcopacy. In 1818 Methodist Episcopal minister William M. Stillwell organized a class of fellow believers who were concerned about
Methodist local preacherA Methodist local preacher is a lay person who has been accredited by a Methodist church to lead worship on a regular basis. Local preachers play an important role in the Methodist Church of Great Britain and other churches historically linked to it, and	Methodist RomeThe Methodist Rome was a nickname sometimes given to the city of Toronto, Ontario in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The moniker implied that Toronto was as central to Methodism as Rome is to Catholicism. Methodism was never the faith o